Where Miss Snark vented her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushed them to sand beneath her T.Rexual heels of stiletto snark. The blog is dark--no further updates after 5/20/2007.

4.07.2006

Word Count Disqualifications

Well, it's true, I missed some.

In answer to "how did you do this" the answer is clearly "late at night or early in the morning" when I clearly was not too chipper. (actually Miss Snark is never chipper...more like she was more snarly than usual).

If you run a word count on an entry and it's over 500, and there's nothing that says disqualified in red at the bottom of the entry, let me know and I'll run the count again.

The One Great Scorer is still silent but there is rumbling in the west. Either Killer Yapp needs a quick walk or OGS is on the move.

I agree about it being too much fun, but the whole point of giving a cap is to prevent something really lengthy appearing. *But* as none of the entries that exceeded the word count egregiously, maybe they should just be docked a few points instead. That way, something really good won't be disqualified. (Just so you know, I was well below the word count in my submission--#30, so I'm advocating for the ones who are over).

So, Miss Snark, I'd like to suggest that if you ever lose you mind again and have such a contest, you make the limit 100 words. That's really tough to do. But then your list might have to be a tad shorter too.